Seven-year-old Eileen al-Kilani stares blankly at the ceiling of Gaza’s overburdened Al-Shifa Hospital, her frail body weakened by leukaemia. A year ago, she was drawing pictures in school. Today, she clings to life, her treatment obstructed by Israel’s siege and the destruction of medical facilities.  

“We have the papers, why won’t they let her out?” her father, Ahmed, demands, his hands shaking as he adjusts her IV drip. “No chemotherapy, no clean blood, no nutrition. Every day, I watch her fade.”  

Gaza’s healthcare system, strangled by 16 years of blockade and nine months of bombardment, teeters on collapse. The WHO reports that 30% of Gaza’s children are acutely malnourished, their immune systems failing. Hospitals, running on generators, face critical shortages of drugs, equipment, and even anaesthetics.  

Eileen’s faint murmur: "I miss my friends” is drowned out by the roar of drones overhead. While diplomats debate, Gaza’s children perish, their suffering met with global indifference.